Example sentences of "had [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader of the small Social Democratic Party , Zardusht Ali Zade , had withdrawn as a presidential candidate on July 17 , as the opposition sought to deny the elections any semblance of legitimacy . |
| 2 | In 1955 five Japanese citizens started a legal action against their own government to recover damages for injuries they had sustained as a result of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 3 | What Dudley had dismissed as the faceless commonalty Smith perceived as three distinct status groups , and accordingly found space to comment on each . |
| 4 | On a visit to Lithuania on March 25 , the chair of Byelarus 's Supreme Soviet , Stanislas Shushkevich , had dismissed as " a joke " a statement made in March by Byelarussian Defence Minister Lt.-Gen. |
| 5 | Le Monde of Sept. 29 quoted Djohar as alleging that Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim , whom he had dismissed as head of government on July 4 [ see p. 38996 ; for his appointment in January 1992 see pp. 38706-07 ] , was behind the Sept. 26 coup attempt . |
| 6 | Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations . |
| 7 | This proposal found support in the work of Lord Kelvin , the pioneer Victorian geophysicist , who attempted to calculate the age of the Earth from its probable rate of cooling on the assumption that it had formed as a molten offshoot of the Sun . |
| 8 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 9 | One such obsolete mentality was religion , which scientists sponsored by Elena Ceauşescu had exposed as a delusion caused by neurological disorders , and which could be cured by simple surgical interventions into the brains of believers . |
| 10 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 11 | If a diabetic patient was in need of so-called ‘ balance ’ — namely , the appropriate injection of human insulin for the control of blood-sugar levels — equally so did Morse require the occasional balance of some mildly erotic fancy in order to meet the demands of what until recently he had diagnosed as a reasonably healthy libido . |
| 12 | Already , within a week of being launched , what the conspirators had intended as a smooth , swift , surgical coup d ‘ état was turning into a full-scale civil war . |
| 13 | ‘ The four of us had developed as a group within Arthur Young 's business services group , a department aimed specifically at the entrepreneurial owner-managed private business , ’ Andy explains . |
| 14 | The voluntary hospital , the South Wing of Bedford 's new general hospital , had developed as a result of charity ; private for the most part , but also with financial support from the public sector ; the story of its development until it was combined with St. Peter 's in 1949 is the subject of the following section : |
| 15 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 16 | The cut site was densely populated with many species of forest trees , the tallest of which had developed as coppice , while the burnt site had a loose canopy of pioneering Cecropia spp. 7m tall , and the bulldozed site had a thin layer of herbs , notably Xyris sp . |
| 17 | She had done a three-month cookery course and , as a last-ditch attempt to acquire some proper qualifications , she had enrolled as a student teacher with Betty Vacani , in Knightsbridge , who ran dancing classes for tiny tots . |
| 18 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 19 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 20 | A Gosteleradio statement declared that it had taken action after discovering that in September 1990 Interfax had registered as an independent agency without notifying Radio Moscow , but had persisted in using Radio Moscow facilities . |
| 21 | In that country the original intention was to oppose the compulsory arbitration system which employers had regarded as a fundamental challenge to management rights , and subsequently to disseminate information and advice to association members ‘ in interpreting the maze of awards , classifications and legislation that the system was producing ’ ( Plowman , 1980 , p. 253 ) . |
| 22 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 23 | Even its original version he had regarded as no more that a bargaining chip . |
| 24 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 25 | Gas and drainage pipes had broken as a result of the settlement and there was a risk of further breaks . |
| 26 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 27 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 28 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 29 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 30 | Lowe blamed the newspapers and television for transforming the storm clouds of revolution he had sensed as an undergraduate at Sussex University into this thin drizzle of social democracy . |